Colourful Dreamer

This has been a very strange Holy Week. It will be disconcerting to not be able to hold services at St. Georges tomorrow and on Sunday. It is also quite hard trying to write a theme about Easter when I am still trying to get my head around Good Friday. This year we retell the story of these events amid a Covid-19 lockdown. And that might change how we experience that this year. Some of us are experiencing the isolation and loneliness that Jesus lived as he walked to the cross. Others like many around the world are joining with him as he prays those famous words of Psalm 22 – “My God, my God, why have you forsaken us!” Some are dying, some are sick, some are mourning those who died, and some live in fear of what will come next. Others are surveying the financial ruin of their lives. “My God, my God, why have you forsaken us!” This year the story of crucifixion holds much deeper meaning than ever before. We join with his disciples then and down the centuries who have seen all t...

The Reading John 13:1-17, 31-35 Common English Bible (CEB) 13 Before the Festival of Passover, Jesus knew that his time had come to leave this world and go to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them fully. 2  Jesus and his disciples were sharing the evening meal. The devil had already provoked Judas, Simon Iscariot’s son, to betray Jesus. 3  Jesus knew the Father had given everything into his hands and that he had come from God and was returning to God. 4  So he got up from the table and took off his robes. Picking up a linen towel, he tied it around his waist. 5  Then he poured water into a washbasin and began to wash the disciples’ feet, drying them with the towel he was wearing. 6  When Jesus came to Simon Peter, Peter said to him, “Lord, are you going to wash my feet?” 7  Jesus replied, “You don’t understand what I’m doing now, but you will understand later.” 8  “No!” Peter said. “You will never wash m...